Vera Institute of Justice 60th Anniversary Gala
Join us on November 16, 2021, as we celebrate 60 years of advancing fairness, safety, and racial justice in the criminal legal system.
Vera’s mission is to end the overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty.
Vera is committed to
Featured Work
Four Ways the Pandemic Made Us Rethink Our Criminal Legal System
As state and local governments scrambled to contain the virus, the punitive policies and practices that have characterized the nation’s criminal legal system became untenable. And as a result, some policymakers enacted measures that advocates have long urged. They released people from jails and prisons, reduced admissions, and took steps to make fa ...
Blog Post
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Nazish Dholakia
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Insha Rahman
What Has Changed since George Floyd's Death?
The crime against Mr. Floyd sharpened public focus on a policing system infected with violence, which has devalued and destroyed Black lives, and has imposed its heavy hand on millions of people of all races and ethnicities (10.5 million people are arrested every year in the United States). There is widespread commitment to finally uprooting the ra ...
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Nicholas Turner
Photo by Lucy Nicholson (REUTERS)
People in Jail and Prison in Spring 2021
Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) researchers collected data on the number of people in local jails and state and federal prisons throughout 2020 and into spring 2021. Vera researchers estimated the incarcerated population using a sample of approximately 1,600 jail jurisdictions, 50 states, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service (U ...
